Closing the door on a convention
By asserting the sovereignty of the right to control their tropical forests, more than 40 developing countries are gearing up to counter the North'…
US drug firms put Third World lives at risk
Inadequate information on the labels of US drug products sold in the Third World have put many lives at risk, concludes a US government study
Fate of forest commission hangs in UN balance
Despite considerable resistance from developing countries, the powerful pro-forest convention lobby will get its own way in setting up a world …
US version of biodiversity pact raises fears
Environmental groups are agitated that Washington's controversial interpretation of the Biodiversity Convention distorts the spirit of the treaty.
Green politics must be pragmatic to succeed
Erstwhile Green Party spokesperson Sara Parkin on the future of green movements in the industrialised world.
Consuming to sustain?
At UNCED, the North tried using the facile argument that their larger consumption actually provided trade and jobs for the poorer South. But …
A fitting reply from the South
Towards a Green World Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain Publisher: Centre for Science and Environment Price: Rs 350 (hardcover); Rs 200 (paperback)
Turning an old leaf
Power from plants Walt Patterson Publisher: Royal Institute of International Affairs Price: Not stated
Fighting to break free
THE POLITICS OF ESSENTIAL DRUGS·Zaffrulla Chowdhury· Vistaar Publications, New Delhi · Price Rs 195
Within the enemy
Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes - indoors - where biomass combustion spells …
A meaningful TREATY?
The Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention is the first step towards defining the emissions reduction targets of industralised countries.…
Taking stock
More than 150 nations gather to assess the damage from mounting ecological and social catastrophes
Power the future
Coal and nuclear power plants are pass; invest in micropower technologies, says a Worldwatch report
Not testing the waters
Case filed against British geological body for not providing information on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh's wells
Outsourcing drug trials
The international clinical trial business could come to India in a big way. The most advanced drugs might be available to Indians as soon as the …
Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change
A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …
'Bioenergy is being taken quite seriously'
Gerald Leach is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in London. He has written extensively on rural energy …
India will soon play a major role
SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to …
COP28: Developed countries owe $500 billion to developing ones under new climate finance goal, finds UNCTAD
Some $250 billion of the $500 billion owed should go to mitigation, $100 billion for adaptation and $150 billion for loss and damage
Only 25 cities responsible for 52% of global urban GHG emissions: Study
Cities in the developed world show higher per capita emissions, according to the study
Being darker makes being a migrant much harder
Migrants from 'developed' economies enjoy more clout
Contracting texts to expand emissions
Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear
Reducing anaemia
Time to fight
Surviving on trade
